Summary
On the final day of the third meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR-3), delegates continued negotiations in the five contact groups throughout the day, adding extended sessions into the night. During the evening closing plenary, delegates welcomed the successful conclusion of discussions on the draft ministerial outcome document and agreed to forward the document to UNEA-3 for consideration. Delegates also adopted eight of the 13 draft decisions and resolutions by acclamation and earmarked the remaining five resolutions for informal consultations over the weekend.
OECPR Chair John Moreti drew the meeting to a close at 10:52 pm.
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Plenary Session
From L-R: Ibrahim Thiaw, Deputy Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP); Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UNEP; UNEA President Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica; OECPR Chair John Moreti, Botswana; and Jorge Laguna-Celis, Secretary, Secretariat of Governing Bodies, UNEP
Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UNEP
UNEA President Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica
OECPR Chair John Moreti, Botswana
Abdelmoneim Mabrouk, Sudan, speaking on behalf of the Arab League
Jorge Laguna-Celis, Secretary, Secretariat of Governing Bodies, UNEP; OECPR Chair John Moreti, Botswana
Rose Makena Muchiri, Kenya
Marta Juarez Ruiz, Costa Rica
Yingxian Xia, China
Hussein Roshdy, Egypt
Ado Lõhmus, EU
Helda Khasmy, Women Major Group, Indonesia
Webster Chiyangwa, Zimbabwe
Andrea Jones Bennett, Jamaica
Annemari Vene, Estonia, with Kelly Hertenweg, Belgium
Delegates between sessions
Contact Group 1
Eduardo Alcibíades Sánchez Kiesslich, Mexico
Simla Yasemin Özkaya, Turkey
Miak Aw Hui Min, Singapore
Eiji Tanaka, Japan
Kätlin Mandel, EU
Sebastian König, Switzerland
Suseno Sukoyono, Indonesia
Charles Mojalemotho, Botswana
Jorge Ernesto Quezada Diaz, El Salvador
Jamil Ahmad, UNEP, with Vladimir Lenev, Russian Federation
Participants conferring
Nathan Glassey, New Zealand, with Maria Lemos, Colombia
Contact Group 2
Committee of Permanent Representatives (CPR) Vice-Chair Elizabeth Taylor, Colombia
Karina Cham, Brazil
Narges Saffar, Iran
Pedro Tiê Candido Souza, Brazil
Contact Group 3
Contact Group 3 Chair Tarja Fernández, Finland
Yu Hai, China
Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, Ukraine
Simon Cardy, South Africa
Wilson Sumner, US
Zaid Noori, Iraq
Around the venue
